790 research outputs found
Marius von Mayenburg and Roland Schimmelpfennig
No full textRoland Schimmelpfennig and Marius von Mayenburg represent a new generation of playwrights to emerge in the German-speaking countries in the late 1990s; other prominent protagonists include Falk Richter, Lukas Bärfuss and Kathrin Röggla, as well as Dea Loher and Sibylle Berg. In this chapter, the author clearly shares some of their approaches, as both revisit and reinvent key conventional dramatic mechanisms, yet from a postdramatic horizon. Fireface, mapped out key themes as well as the (European middle-class) universe that keeps appearing in Mayenburg’s work in a variety of permutations. In Der Hässliche, premiered at Schaubühne Berlin in January 2007, Marius von Mayenburg plays a scathing game with postmodern ideas of the ‘performativity’ of subjectivity and contingency of identity. These academic ideas, in the context of neoliberal capitalism, contribute to an all-encompassing commodification of individuality. In fact, all of Marius von Mayenburg’s plays transcend the hyper-realities of his scenarios into grotesque exposures of absurdities of middle-class life under global capitalism
Biblical connotations in Marius von Mayenburgʼs plays
No full textMarius von Mayenburgʼs plays provide a critique of contemporary society, which is replete with violence and conformity. The playwright refers to the so‑called ‘new realism,’ and also incorporates elements of the post‑dramatic theatre. Biblical motifs in contemporary literature, including German literature, have recently lost their popularity; however, they have not disappeared altogether. They continue to be a source of inspiration for artists across various domains. Marius von Mayenburg is no exception, as he fearlessly incorporates and reinterprets these motifs, harnessing their universal messages in his plays. This paper aims to trace biblical motifs and determine their function in three well‑known plays by the author: Parasiten, Märtyrer and Mars
Effective planning for internal audit.
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to find a way to effectively plan for internal audit. Conditions necessary for effective planning are formulated by using analysis of scientific literature. In second part author suggests a model for effective internal audit planning. In third part model is applied and analyzed using a case study
TO PUBLISH A DENIGRATING VOLUME DURING THE COMMUNIST REGIME: AFTER FIFTY YEARS, AUTHOR: MARIUS MIRCU
No full textInnovative ideas were seldom appreciated by the communist dictatorial regime, all the more so as they were a critique of the system. The idealism of the romantic period of communism, when some of those who suffered in previous eras joined the beliefs promoted by politicians, was radically transformed when the true intentions came to light. Isolated in the circle of the loved ones, one of the few places where he could express his true thoughts and feelings, Marius Mircu took refuge in writing, believing that irony and satire, the weapons of literature he mastered so well, would help him mask the true meaning of his words from the volume După cincizeci de ani [After Fifty Years]. The purpose of our study is to illustrate his efforts to publish this volume during the communist period, the reactions of the state authorities, and the actions taken against the author
Daniel 9 as part of an apocalyptic book?
No full textDaniel 9 relates how Daniel studies the Hebrew Holy Scriptures and finds the prophecy of Jeremiah that Jerusalem will lie desolate for seventy years. He reacts by devoting himself to prayer and fasting in order to remind God of this promise of restoring his people. The better part of the chapter is dedicated to the contents of his prayer. During the prayer, the man, Gabriel, appears with the intent to give Daniel an understanding of the meaning of the seventy years, which is the measure of the punishment of Israel�s transgression and sin and which will end with eternal righteousness, when the Holy of Holies will be anointed. The Book of Daniel consists of two sections: the tales of the first six chapters and the visions of the last six chapters. This article asked the question: what role does Daniel 9 play as a part of the apocalyptic section of the book? Is Daniel�s prayer and Gabriel�s revelation apocalyptically conditioned? Why did the author or compiler include it in the book and, especially, in the second, apocalyptic section of the book? The conclusion of this article was that Daniel 9 was placed intentionally by the compiler in the latter half of the book because of the revelation about the seventy weeks, which is in line with the last three chapters� indication of the end times and Israel�s elevation to become the ruler of the earth. Several arguments were formulated to support this conclusion.</span
Pentecostal hermeneutical considerations about women in ministry
No full textAt first, the Pentecostal movement made no distinction between genders in the ministry. Anyone anointed by the Spirit was allowed to minister, whether to pray for the sick, testify about an encounter with God, preach or teach. The emphasis was not on the person of the one ministering, but on the Spirit equipping and empowering the person. Due to Pentecostals' upward mobility and alliance with evangelicals in order to receive the approval of the society and government since the 1940s, women's contribution to the ministry faded until in the 1970s some Pentecostals with an academic background started debating about Pentecostal hermeneutics; questioning also the omission of women from ministry. Although many Pentecostals still read the Bible in a fundamentalist manner, the article proposes a hermeneutical strategy-in accordance with the way early Pentecostals interpreted the Bible-that moves from the experience with the Spirit to the Bible, allowing one to experience the confusion and conflict necessarily associated with contradictory statements found in the Bible about issues such as women in the ministry. While the author agrees it is important that discrimination against women in the church should cease, the purpose of the article is not primarily to discuss this discrimination; it is rather to show how a movement's hermeneutical viewpoint and considerations can cause the movement to change its stance about an important issue such as women in ministry
History of Medicine #25: Race: a history of a bad idea
No full textUpstream, the BAME Action Group and the Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics are pleased to invite you to a book launch: Historicizing Race by Marius Turda and Maria Sophie Quine (Bloomsbury, 2018). Co-author Marius Turda will introduce the book and read a few extracts. In response Sasha Coutinho, International Relations and Business Management, and Graham van Wyk, OBI, will reflect on the contribution the book makes in understanding the idea of “race” and its implications today. The event will be chaired by Syed Imam, History. We invite you to participate in what will be a lively discussion of the idea of “race” across history, and which unfortunately, is still making history! "To be black was to confront, and to be forced to alter, a condition forged in history. To be white was to be forced to digest a delusion called white supremacy", James Baldwin, ‘Dark days’ 198
The signs of the Messiah (‘Otot Hamashiach) and Jewish apocalypticism
No full textFomerly know as Acta Patristica et ByzantinaDuring the Second Temple period several Jewish writings refer to the oral tradition of the 'otot hamashiach, the signs that would accompany the coming of the Messiah. The subject is utilized by the author of the Gospel of John in his deliberate and calculated references to 'signs' as a way of authorizing Jesus as the expected and promised Messiah. The signs enumerated in Near Eastern apocalypses range from natural disasters and cataclysms, to social and political upheavals and preternatural occurrences. The 'Otot Hamashiach is a Jewish apocalypse of uncertain date, from around the third to the sixth centuries C.E., describing ten signs or portents that would transpire before the end comes. The Apocalypse opens important perspectives on Jewish medieval expectations of the Messiah and the end of times, as well as the enemy of Israel, Armilus
Privacy-enhanced Microblogging
No full textMicroblogging is a popular form of Online Social Networking (OSN) activity. It allows users to send out short and succinct messages in a one-to-many publish-subscribe manner. Most current service providers are centralized and deploy a client-server model with unencrypted message content. As a consequence, all user behavior can, by default, be monitored, and censoring based on message content can easily be enforced on the server side. Also, the centralized services can be seen as a single point of failure and can become severely disrupted either by disconnecting the service from the Internet or by Internet outages. These privacy issues and the susceptibility of the services to censorship are not only theoretical, but a variety of incidents have shown that these issues are readily exploited. As a consequence, it would be desirable if alternative microblogging solutions were available that offer additional privacy features and which are more resilient to censorship. In this thesis, a distributed, peer-to-peer based microblogging system consisting of mobile smartphone-equipped users that exchange messages, encrypted under a group key, in an anonymous and censorship-resistant manner is proposed, which alleviates the privacy and censorship issues of most current centralized microblogging architectures. Users conduct peer synchronizations to exchange messages, i.e., the bidirectional exchange of a prepared message buffer whenever two users are in proximity of each other and able to establish a direct link using local communication means such as Bluetooth. The way in which the send buffer is filled with messages is determined by the use of a given synchronization strategy. To show the feasibility of the proposed microblogging system, we experimentally evaluate the message spread with simulations that run on a wide range of synthetic and real-world mobility inputs. We show that such systems are working for a range of mobility and network settings, and we evaluate the effects of using different synchronization strategies. In addition to a normal operation of the network, we also test it under adversarial conditions, e.g., under the presence of users which jam the network or send spam. Since the message propagation in the purely peer-to-peer based system is dependent on the mobility the users exhibit as well as the number of users encountered, which are needed to conduct peer synchronizations, the message spread can be slow to non-existent, if parts of the network are segmented and users can not exchange messages via peer synchronizations. In such cases, the devised solution for a higher message spread is facilitated by employing a server that stores the messages of multiple groups in an Oblivious RAM (ORAM) data structure which can be accessed by users at their own discretion. On demand, users read or write their group-encrypted messages obliviously, without the server getting to know anything about the accesses that took place by the users including the message accessed or whether the access was a read or write access. In total, the microblogging solution's use is feasible, but the design decisions required for anonymity result in a delayed spread of messages on a best effort basis
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